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In January 2012, shooting was set to begin in Sydney, Australia, on the Hollywood-backed production of Milton’s 'Paradise Lost', with Oscar nominee Bradley Cooper cast as Satan. Yet just two weeks before the start of production, Legendary Pictures delayed the project, reportedly due to budgetary concerns, and soon the company had suspended the film indefinitely. Milton scholar Eric C. Brown, who was then serving as a script consultant for the studio, sees his experience with that project as part of a long and perplexing story of Milton on film. Indeed, as Brown details in this comprehensive study, Milton’s place in the popular imagination - and his extensive influence upon the cinema, in particular - has been both pervasive and persistent. 0As this latest venture demonstrates, the history of Milton on film has been full of ambitious visions and dazzling failures. From the earliest proto-cinematic inventions, Milton has represented the quintessential subject for increasingly spectacular visual entertainment: mechanical pantomimes and spectacles in the eighteenth century; panoramas, dioramas, musical extravaganzas, and magic lantern shows in the nineteenth century. Milton has also fi

Author

Eric C. Brown

Publisher

Penn State University Press

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9780271093512

Subjects

History, Literary Criticism, Sports